Lethality of SARS-CoV-2 infection in K18 human angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 transgenic mice
Here, the authors characterize tissue-level SARS-CoV-2 infection and pathogenesis in transgenic mice expressing human angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (hACE2) by the human cytokeratin 18 promoter (K18-hACE2) and show that infection induces lethality, making the K18-hACE2 model suitable for vaccine an...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2020-11-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19891-7 |